Events from the year 1943 in Canada.
Provincial governments
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[edit]Territorial governments
[edit]- January 8 – Stuart Garson becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Bracken, who had governed for 21 years.
- May 11 – J. Walter Jones becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Thane Campbell.
- May 18 – Harry Nixon becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Gordon Conant.
- May 23 – William Aberhart, premier of Alberta, dies in office.
- May 31 – Ernest Manning becomes premier of Alberta.
- July – The 1st Canadian Infantry Division is part of the invasion of Sicily.
- August 4 – Ontario election: George Drew's PCs win a minority, defeating Harry Nixon's Liberals.
- August 17 – George Drew becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Harry Nixon.
- August 19 – The Quebec Agreement is signed in Quebec City, between Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- October 21 – HMCS Chedabucto sinks near Rimouski after an accidental collision with another ship.
- October 22 – The crew of German submarine U-537 set up Weather Station Kurt near Martin Bay in Labrador.
- December 20 – December 27 – Battle of Ortona rages in Italy.
- January 9 – Elmer MacFadyen, politician (d. 2007)
- January 10 – Carl Ray, artist (d. 1978)
- January 23 – Bill Cameron, news anchor, television producer, columnist and author (d. 2005)
- January 28 – Paul Henderson, ice hockey player
- February 19 – Art Hanger, politician
- February 23 – Charles Dalfen, chairperson of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (d. 2009)
- February 27 – Gordon Earle, politician
- March 7 – Billy MacMillan, ice hockey coach and player (d. 2023)
- March 11 – Bob Plager, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
- March 15 – David Cronenberg, filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional actor
- March 25 – Loyola Hearn, diplomat and politician
Nancy Greene
- April 1 – Shirley Render, politician
- April 2 – Alan Tonks, politician
- April 3 – Richard Manuel, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (d. 1986)
- April 12 – Jenny Meldrum, hurdler and heptathlete
- April 17 – Bobby Curtola, singer (d. 2016)
- April 22 – Edwin Tchorzewski, politician (d. 2008)
- May 11 – Nancy Greene Raine, alpine skier, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion, Senator
- June 5 – Jean-Claude Lord, film director and screenwriter (d. 2022)
- June 21 – Diane Marleau, politician and Minister (d. 2013)
Joe Handley
- July 15 – John H. Bryden, politician, journalist and historian
- July 30 – Jean Friesen, politician
- July 31 – Ryan Larkin, animator, artist and sculptor (d. 2007)
- August 9 – Joe Handley, politician and 10th Premier of the Northwest Territories
- August 12 – Anne Cools, Senator
- August 29 – Arthur B. McDonald, astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
- September 9 – Daurene Lewis, politician and nation's first black female mayor (d. 2013)
- September 12 – Alain Dostie, cinematographer, film director and screenwriter
- September 12 – Michael Ondaatje, novelist and poet
- September 19 – Lyle Vanclief, politician and Minister
- September 22 – Maurice Baril, General and Chief of the Defence Staff
- September 27 – Randy Bachman, guitarist and songwriter
October to December
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David Peterson in 2005
- October 16 – Paul Rose, convicted of murder and kidnapping of Pierre Laporte in 1970 and leader of PDS (1996–2002) (d. 2013)
- October 24 – Frank Pitura, politician (d. 2019)
- October 26 – Diane Gerace, high jumper
- November 7 – Joni Mitchell, musician, songwriter and painter
- November 13 – André-Gilles Fortin, politician (d. 1977)
- November 18 – Michael H. Rayner, public servant (d. 2004)
- November 22 – Yvan Cournoyer, ice hockey player
- November 27 – Nicole Brossard, poet and novelist
- December 2 – Larry Grossman, politician (d. 1997)
- December 13 – Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player
- December 14 – Linda McIntosh, politician
- December 21 – André Arthur, radio host and politician (d. 2022)
- December 23 – Margaret MacMillan, historian
- December 28 – David Peterson, politician and 20th Premier of Ontario
- December 29 – Rick Danko, musician and singer (d. 1999)
- December 30 – Linda Thom, shooter and Olympic gold medallist
- February 9 – Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1875)
- May 23 – William Aberhart, politician and 8th Premier of Alberta (b. 1878)
- July 2 – Robert James Manion, politician (b. 1881)
- July 4 – Gordon Sidney Harrington, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1883)
- July 12 – Joseph Boutin Bourassa, politician (b. 1853)
- October 18 – Albert Charles Saunders, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1874)
- November 26 – Charles G.D. Roberts, poet and prose writer (b. 1860)
- November 29 – Robert Hamilton Butts, politician (b. 1871)
- December 9 – Peter Dmytruk, World War II military hero (b. 1920)
- December 23 – Edgar Sydney Little, politician (b. 1885)
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